: Enlarge path (make bolder) in Inkscape I converted the letter "Z" to a path. Now I want to make the Z extra bold. The corners should stay sharp. I don't want to make the letter bigger, I

@Eichhorn212

As Telofy notes, simply adding a stroke to the letter shape (like Scott suggested) may produce unexpected results if the stroke / fill color is semitransparent. For example, here's a semitransparent letter Z:



This letter has an RGBA fill color of #0000007f , i.e. 50% transparent black. The random ellipse behind it is there just to demonstrate the transparency. If I simply add a 10px stroke to this letter, with the same semitransparent color, here's what the result will look like:



Note the conspicuous dark lines where the stroke overlaps the fill.

There are (at least) two ways to avoid this. The simple one is to make the fill and stroke colors fully opaque and just move the opacity slider (which affects the entire object) down to compensate. For example, here's the same letter Z with #000000ff fill and stroke and with 50% opacity:



This simple technique, however, might not work if you want your letter to have a more complicated texture or gradient fill. In that case, an alternative solution is to:


convert the text to a path (Path → Convert to Path),
duplicate the object (Edit → Duplicate),
select one of the duplicates, add the desired stroke to it, and convert the stroke to a path (Path → Stroke to Path), and finally
select both duplicates and unify them (Path → Union).


Here's what the result looks like, both with a plain #0000007f fill and with a fancy gradient fill, just to show that it works:




Ps. Here's what you get with Path → Dynamic Offset. It's not the same:

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@Gail6891361

If your font (and thus also the stroke) is semi-transparent, you get an ugly line where fill color and stroke overlap.

I like Xav’s method here better even though it’s a tad more complicated.

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@Murray976

Add a stroke to the shape.

Am I missing something?

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